• The Month of December
    We’re in the month of December I’ve just seen a village tree being lit. Under that tree ‘presents’ were stacked and on top pretty angels sit. We’re in the month of December, parties and family gatherings take hold. But spare a thought for 96 people who have been left out in the cold. We’re in […]
  • The Spion Kop
    At Anfield in 1906, a huge embankment was raised Behind the south goal. It was called the Oakfield Road bank, And it would become the clubs very soul. It was then the tallest terrace in England, complete with 132 treads. Anfields proud new bank of terracing, now home to 28,0000 reds. Then Liverpool gave this […]
  • Liverpool v Nottingham Forest (Abandoned)
    An FA Cup tie which Liverpool didn’t win, lose or draw. The original match finished up without having a final score. A game that finished with a full 84 minutes left unused. A game in which both teams left the field all bemused. It was a ghost of a game, one that was left incomplete. […]
  • Bonfire
    It doesn’t have to be November; it doesn’t have to be Bonfire Night. It can be nothing to do with Guy Fawkes or his brave political fight. Let’s build our own bonfire with a purpose and plot of a different kind. A bonfire we’ll stack with corruption and all the lies that we can find. […]
  • Man of the People (a poem for Bill Shankly)
    You dragged our club out of the doldrums, those barren years in Division Two. And every success we’ve ever had since then, we owe it all to you. You rightly once called Anfield ‘a toilet’, but you turned it into a shrine. You made the players feel invincible once they crossed that Anfield white line. […]